Introducing Spanner Omni

Today, we announced the preview of Spanner Omni, a downloadable version of Spanner, that expands its industry-leading distributed database capabilities beyond Google Cloud. This enables enterprises to run Spanner in their own data centers, across clouds, or on a laptop — bringing its virtually unlimited scalability, high availability, strong consistency, enterprise-grade security, and multi-model capabilities to AI-enabled applications wherever they operate. 

Why Spanner Omni is a big deal

Over a decade ago, Google pioneered the distributed SQL market with Spanner. It offered the "holy grail" combination: the horizontal scalability of NoSQL with the ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability) compliance and strong consistency of a traditional relational database. Since then, Spanner has evolved into an interoperable multimodal database, incorporating SQL, graph, key-value, full-text search, vector search, and analytical processing with columnar engine. This evolution offers the capabilities needed for the AI era and promises an opportunity to simplify and consolidate customers’ workloads ...